(Currently, the check mark denotes a verified account ... Mr. Cohen wrote on Tuesday. He added a rat emoji to his display name on Twitter and encouraged other users to do the same.

adding a blue check mark emoji. "Goodbye, blue check. I will pathetically seek validation from mere friends and loved ones," wrote another Twitter user.

And on November 5, Twitter, fresh under Musk, changed its blue check mark policy via a subscription ... "I miss killing Iraqis" along with a sad-face emoji. Then there was O.J., or rather a ...

As Twitter’s legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end ... yet to receive a response (aside from the customary poop emoji, of course). Paul was a senior TechCrunch writer based ...

Clicking on the check mark itself from a profile page apparently displays different copy too, but like everything on Twitter right now, that is subject to change. So far this has resulted in some ...

A Twitter user _Ninji noticed he could select a range of emoji including a frown and party noisemaker by hovering over the heart. The user said he had iOS Twitter patched to "force-enable all the ...

On Feb. 26, 2023, a viral tweet claimed Twitter was banning users from using the Ukrainian flag emoji unless they paid for a "Twitter Blue" checkmark. The tweet was authored by @walter_report and ...

Elon Musk’s Twitter is getting ready to relaunch Twitter Blue, the subscription service that now includes the blue check-mark — and this time, it’s taking new steps to prevent a repeat of ...

And in a move likely to draw even more ire, Twitter users can now see who has paid for their blue badge and who hasn’t. Historically, the blue badge (aka the blue check mark) served an important ...

The hope was that taking away the “free” Twitter blue check-mark would boost revenue from subscriptions to Twitter Blue, while Musk has also framed it as democratizing the user-verification ...